Tremblingly sat in the canoe, Hong Tao and Pa Wei each had an oar, Hong Tao sat on the bow of the boat and paddled from the left, Pa Wei sat at the stern of the boat and paddled from the right, the cooperation was not bad, and finally the boat left the dock.

In fact, they don't paddle hard at all, and the boat moves briskly on the water like a leaf by the flow of the river, and the only thing needed is to use the oars to control the direction of the bow. In this regard, Hong Tao is much better than riding a horse, no matter whether he is fishing in any reservoir, he needs to row a dinghy down to make a nest, so rowing is not difficult for Hong Tao.

This river is called the Venice River, the river is quite wide, but the water is not deep, and the current is very gentle, the only thing to note is that there are many shoals under the water, but with Austin leading the way, everyone only needs to follow his boat.

Starting from Pivonack, drive more than 20 kilometers along the river, it is the mouth of the Venice River, but they don't have to run so far, at this time the estuary area has been frozen, there is a shoal more than ten kilometers away from the estuary, where the river is only half a meter deep, it is a place where polar bears prefer to hunt, they will wait for the appearance of beavers by the river here.

It is not easy to say that this polar bear, although they eat everything, even bark and hay can make do with their stomachs, but their main food is seals, without those fat-rich seal meat to supplement, they can not get enough calories, and the mother bear can not successfully conceive and give birth to bears, so every winter, there are a large number of polar bears from the north trekking a long distance to Hudson Bay to feed.

Why do you have to come to Hudson Bay, because there are a lot of migratory sturgeon schools here during the winter months, and seals follow these schools to Hudson Bay, and polar bears chase after them, which is a very clear food chain.

"Don't smoke or open any food, these guys have a very sensitive sense of smell and can smell the canned meat you eat from a few kilometers away. They are all hungry, and if they smell it, then we are miserable. When the three dinghys stopped near the shoal that Austin said, Austin explained in detail the precautions for watching polar bears, and to put it bluntly, the polar bear is too hungry, let's not mess with it.

After waiting for a long time, not a single polar bear was seen, and when Harrison spotted a brown bear scurrying back and forth across the river, Austin ordered the boat to be sailed. Because of the presence of this brown bear, the polar bear will not come to this area, and I don't know why this brown bear does not go to sleep in the tree hole in the winter, and runs out to wander around.

After drifting for another 2 kilometers or so, the river in front of it seemed to suddenly disappear, replaced by a white ice field, where the river and the sea were frozen together, and it was impossible to tell where the river was and where the sea was, and the entire sea surface of Hudson Bay would freeze. It won't melt until after March.

"Shhhhhh Hong Tao was discussing with Pavey whether the polar bear could be killed with one shot, when Austin suddenly pointed to the distance and silenced everyone.

"Hey. It's watching us, it's not going to treat us like seals, is it? Hong Tao took the telescope and saw that there was really a polar bear on the ice on the left, and it also spotted these small boats at this time. I'm twisting my little triangular head to look this way.

"Let's go, let's go up, you'd better follow my footsteps. There are many ice holes in the ice that have been smashed by polar bears, some of which may be covered in snow, so don't fall down. Austin commanded the boat to lean against the bank of the river, then took out a knife, cut a branch, and held it in his hand as a pathfinder pole.

"Look, this is an ice cave, follow me." Just a few hundred meters on the ice, Austin used a stick to pestle on the ice a few times, a thin layer of ice was pierced, and an ice hole with a diameter of more than a foot was exposed underneath. In this temperature, even if you can climb up, it won't take you 20 minutes to freeze to death.

"Why do polar bears dig ice holes?" This time, it was no longer Hong Tao's 100,000 things to ask, but Liu Xiaomei.

"They catch seals in this ice cave, and they will smash a lot of ice holes in the ice, and then they will lie down at the mouth of the cave and guard it, and once the seals come out to breathe, it will be a good meal." Hong Tao was given a chance to show off, and he had seen the knowledge of polar bears catching seals on television.

"Cut, you think that a polar bear is a slacker like you, and you can't think of it, you lie on the side and wait for me to take a look." Who knew that Hong Tao's words not only did not make Liu Xiaomei praise his erudition, but it had the opposite effect, and the big beauty pointed to the ice cave and planned to let Hong Tao try it to see if he could wait for the seal to come out.

"Don't pretend to understand if you don't understand, don't believe you ask Austin, see if I'm right." Hong Tao has always been rational and not to others, as long as the question of truth, no matter who it is, must be clarified.

"Hong Tao is right, that's how polar bears catch seals, but it's not easy, and sometimes you can't catch one for days." Austin and a few of them watched Hong Tao and Liu Xiaomei fight on the side, until they asked him about it, and then they stood up and helped Hong Tao say a fair word.

"If you know the way, you know the way, what's the big deal." Liu Xiaomei didn't feel guilty at all because of her misjudgment, or that many women are always unreasonable, she is a representative of this kind of woman.

"Look, that guy is standing up, is he going to warn us?" Boss Liu kept holding a telescope to look at the polar bear.

"It's okay, it's smashing the ice cave, let's stay away from it, this is its territory, lest it catch the seal monster on our heads." Austin glanced at it and motioned not to be nervous.

"I'm X, this strength is really TM, where is this body, this is the piledriver." Hong Tao saw the polar bear stand upright like a human on its hind legs, and then slammed its front paws into the ice, and so on until it smashed a hole in the ice dozens of centimeters behind.

"Shall we move on? Or just wait here to see how it kills the seals? "Austin is asking for everyone's opinions.

"I choose to stay here." Hong Tao hurriedly expressed his attitude, these foreigners are a tendon, when he asks your opinion, you had better be honest and say quickly, they are really not fake and polite, once they form a resolution, then no one can easily regret it.

"I'd better pity Tao's ass and choose to stay." Pavey is worthy of being Hong Tao's friend, and he was the first to stand up to support him.

"I want to go for a walk in the distance again, and maybe I can meet the lost bear!" Liu Xiaomei is also worthy of being Hong Tao's sworn enemy, as long as Hong Tao supports it, she basically opposes it.

"Miss Liu, your idea is too terrible, it is very dangerous to contact bear cubs in the territory of polar bears, the mother bear will tear us all apart as soon as possible, and there are no cubs in this season, they usually give birth in March." Austin prefers Hong Tao relatively more, but his identity cannot explicitly support Hong Tao, and can only be based on facts.

The most popular people decided to stay here and observe the predation process of this polar bear, because there is no transportation, if you walk too far on the ice, it is not only very tiring but also dangerous, in case you catch up with those polar bears who are not very good-tempered and hungry, you can only choose to shoot them.

Although Austin was an Indian and could hunt polar bears on the reservation, they still had a lot of respect for animals, so they were ashamed to hunt not for the sake of living.

Everyone found a high and raised ice wall as a shelter to protect them from the wind, took out a few animal skins as blankets, spread them on the ice to keep out the cold, and then sat on the fur, holding binoculars and cameras, and began to stare at the polar bear that was shaving the ice cave.

This polar bear is huge, probably 3 meters tall when it stands up, and has milky white fur, which looks very elegant in the sun. (To be continued......)